Category: Make A Thing!
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Atari ST STOS Basic Grief Game Dev Diary #1
Introduction In this video I am going to describe some of the decisions and algorithms I am using to create my STOS game, Grief, Grief is a classic arcade variant inspired by the arcade game Gorf, but it is not a port. The first level started with tutorials I was…
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Atari ST STOS Basic #3: Speeding up Sprite Rendering: Make a thing!
In this, the third in our New Make A Thing! Series on Atari ST STOS, we are going to experiment with 6 different methods to display and move a 27 sprite invader formation on the ST screen. We will start with Basic ST sprites, move through various pre-shifting strategies and…
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Beginning Atari ST STOS BASIC #2: The Screen and Tiles
In this series we will look at STOS Basic for the Atari ST. This program was designed as a game creation programming language but sometimes has been mistaken for a construction set, which it is not. In the preview episode we look at STOS Sprites Hi and welcome to Beginning…
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Beginning Atari ST STOS #1 Sprites. MAKE A THING!
In this series we will look at STOS Basic for the Atari ST. This program was designed as a game creation programming language but sometimes has been mistaken for a construction set, which it is not. In some previous videos I have gone over what utilities come with STOS and…
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MAKE A THING! Atari ST Boulder Dash Construction Set
In this first episode of a new series, called MAKE A Thing, we attempt, to the best of our ability, to pick up Boulder Dash Construction Kit for the Atari ST and make a Pac-Man like Game. This is complicated by the fact hat I know almost nothing about Boulder…